Slot 'asks Liverpool' to sign a 'headache of biblical proportions' as they look 'to reach £41m agreement'
Liverpool employer Arne Port has prompted the Reds hierarchy to indication Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong, according to records.
The Reds have carried a colorful prelude to the brand name-new Premier League season with the Merseysiders 4 points legible of second-placed Chelsea at the peak of the Premier League, while they in addition have a gallery in hand on their competitors.
Port could have rarely wanted a better prelude as Liverpool employer after discarding Feyenoord to prosper superordinary employer Jurgen Klopp at Anfield.
Klopp disclaimed the Liverpool crew in a nice specify after his separation with the Reds upgrading their midfield in the previous summertime transfer window.
Yet now Port still brows through weaknesses his side, despite them in addition leading the Winners League group phase table, and records in Spain case that the Liverpool employer has ‘asked’ the Reds hierarchy to indication Barcelona midfielder De Jong.
De Jong has held up against with injuries questions and loss of kind over the last 12 months and Barcelona seem responsive to enabling him to reject the Camp Nou for the correct price.
And it is claimed that the Netherlands around the world ‘could end upwards at Anfield’ after becoming ‘a nightmare of scriptural proportions’ for Barcelona employer Hansi Flick.
Flick ‘lingers to make it legible that he is much from his safest disparity, and that correct now he is not unanimously detected to be a starter’ with De Jong mostly presented as a subsitute this term.
Wearing De Jong, who is the joint-highest paid player at Barcelona, having a contract till the summertime of 2026, the Catalan titans ‘ought to receive rid of him if they wear’t pine to browse through him say bye-bye for preserve immediately’.
Manchester Metropolis, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain have ‘thrown away pep in him’ yet Liverpool employer Port opines ‘that he can recoup his safest kind’.
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Port has ‘asked the English nightclub’s board to initiate calls’ for the opportunity January finalizing yet the Liverpool board ‘get started on not pine to make a considerable expenditure for De Jong’.
Liverpool’s ‘unbiased is to reach an contract for about €50m (£41m), or also much less’ and recommend De Jong that Anfield is the correct location for him.
An injury to Rodri at Male Metropolis has thwarted the season for Pep Guardiola’s side yet previous winger Jermaine Pennant opines Liverpool are much less reliant on one player.
Pennant told Mega Dice: “Liverpool aren’t as dependant on one player as Manchester Metropolis are with Rodri. I wear’t reckon if Liverpool were to lose Ryan Gravenberch to injury at any juncture that it would naturally be also too high to their season.
“We saw it against Newcastle, Dominic Szoboszlai and Alexis MacAllister packed in for him when he was thieved off and can carry out well in that posture and get started on a job-related, and there was a miniscule fractured of energy in the facility of the park.
“If they did lose him to injury it would naturally harmed, of training course, because what he’s been implementing this season has been sensational and he performs aid Liverpool receive out of annoy. Liverpool are substantiated without him, yet, so it undeniably wouldn’t be as counterproductive as we’ve watched the loss of Rodri has been to Metropolis.”
